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CAIRO (AP) — A dam in Sudan’s eastern Red Sea state collapsed and sent water flooding over nearby homes, killing at least four people, the country’s health ministry said. Media reports said scores of people were missing.  In a statement late Sunday, the ministry said that the Arbaat dam had collapsed and that resources had been deployed to the area to help the people who had been stranded.  The statement said at least four people had died in the floodwaters but did not give an estimate of how many were missing. However, a local official told the Sudanese news site Al-Tagheer that he believed there to be at least 60 dead. Amr Eissa Taher, the head water resources official for the Red Sea state, said the damage was extensive.  The Sudanese news outlet Medameek, citing the country’s air force, reported more than 100 people were missing, and that many other villagers had climbed to rocky hilltops to avoid the rising waters.

A dam collapses in eastern Sudan after heavy rainfall and local media report dozens missing

Reuters

ARBAAT, Sudan (Reuters) -Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiped out at least 20 villages and left at least 30 people dead but probably many more in eastern Sudan, the United Nations said on Monday, devastating a region already reeling from months of civil war.

At least 30 dead, many missing after dam bursts in eastern Sudan

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Flash floods and mudslides across Thailand brought by monsoon rains have killed 22 people and injured 19, authorities said on Monday, warning some provinces of further risk, with 30,000 households affected.

Thailand warns against severe floods that killed 22

PBS NewsHour

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 38 people in three separate attacks on Monday, officials said, while the military said security forces killed 21 insurgents, marking one of the deadliest days of violence in the restive Baluchistan province, with reports of other shootings and destruction in the area as well.

Gunmen kill at least 38 people in one of the deadliest days in a Pakistani province

TIME

Photographer Nicolò Filippo Rosso documented his recent trips to a refugee camp in Adré.

The 'World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis' Comes Into Focus

As monsoon rains were about to break over Pakistan, 14-year-old Shamila and her 13-year-old sister Amina were married off in exchange for money, a decision their parents made to help the family survive the threat of floods. In Khan Mohammad Mallah village, where Shamila and Amina were married in a joint ceremony in June, 45 underage girls have become wives since the last monsoon -- 15 of them in May and June this year. 

'Monsoon brides': Extreme weather fuels Pakistan child marriages

Floods triggered by torrential rains have swamped a swath of low-lying Bangladesh, disaster officials said Thursday, adding to the new government's challenges after weeks of political turmoil. "Around 2.9 million people have been affected and more than 70,000 people have been taken to shelters," Mohammad Nazmul Abedin, senior official in the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, told AFP.
Long-time premier Sheikh Hasina quit as prime minister this month and fled to India after weeks of deadly student-led protests, ending her 15-year autocratic rule.

Floods swamp Bangladesh as nation finds its feet after protests

The 88-year-old star of such classics as "Le Samourai" and "Purple Noon", who was once described as "Europe's James Dean", died on Sunday. French police had set up roadblocks near the manor in the village of Douchy, with the airspace overhead also closed for the entire weekend. The 50 or...

Film legend Delon is buried near his dogs as fans mourn

Dubai (AFP) – US rapper Macklemore has announced he is cancelling an upcoming show in Dubai over the UAE's involvement in the conflict in Sudan, charges the Gulf state has denied. The rapper best known for hits like 2012's "Thrift Shop" made the announcement in a post on social...

US rapper Macklemore cancels Dubai gig over alleged UAE role in Sudan war

Delon, who died last week aged 88, had requested that his funeral be a private affair. Dozens of fans gathered to pay their respects outside the grounds of his 120-hectare estate in Douchy, southeast of Paris, where he was buried in a ceremony attended by about 50 mourners. Film legend...

Movie star Alain Delon is buried in a private ceremony at his estate in France

A day after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law banning the Russian-linked Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Pope Francis on Sunday warned that the move could infringe on the freedom of worship. Ukraine's parliament approved the ban last week following tensions with the Russian Orthodox Church, which has backed the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Pope Francis condemns Ukraine’s ban on Russian Orthodox Church

WEKU

Security forces killed 12 insurgents, officials said, in one of the deadliest days of violence in the restive Baluchistan province, with reports of other shootings and destruction in the area.

Gunmen kill at least 31 people in 2 separate attacks in restive southwestern Pakistan

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The Lens

This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Flash flooding has decimated 20 villages and damaged a further 50 after the Arba’at Dam collapsed in Sudan’s Red Sea State Sunday, affecting 50,000 homes, according to the UN.

At least 30 dead after dam collapses in Sudan, UN agency says

CBS News

Quetta, Pakistan — Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 31 people in two separate attacks on Monday and security forces killed 12 insurgents, officials said, in one of the deadliest days of violence in the restive Baluchistan province, with reports of other shootings and destruction in the area. Twenty-three people were fatally shot after being identified and taken from buses and trucks in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan, senior police official Ayub Achakzai said. The attackers burned at least 10 vehicles before fleeing. In a separate attack, gunmen killed at least nine people, including four police officers and five passersby,...

At least 23 people taken off vehicles and killed by gunmen in Pakistan

The chief executive of the messaging app Telegram Pavel Durov was detained in Paris Sunday after arriving from Dubai by private jet. He is to appear in a French court on Sunday as part of an investigation into Telegram's lack of content moderators.

Telegram chief Pavel Durov to appear in court after French arrest

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

The video is as triumphant as it is gruesome. Rebel fighters, rifles slung over their shoulders, step among more than a dozen bodies strewn across the sand and rocks. Off camera, the pop of gunshots can be heard. 

Dozens of Russian mercenaries killed in rebel ambush in Mali, in their worst known loss in Africa

La Grande-Motte (France) (AFP) – A friend of French rapper SCH was shot dead early Monday after leaving a club in the south of the country where the musician had just performed, a source close to the case told AFP. Another person was wounded in the shooting outside La...

Friend of French rapper SCH shot dead after concert

Brazil was deploying military aircraft as part of a "war" against wildfires ravaging the southeastern state of Sao Paulo, with authorities warning on Sunday that arsonists were setting blazes. Following a crisis meeting of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's cabinet, Environment Minister Marina Silva announced a "war against the fire" and said federal police were investigating the "atypical situation" that has caused extensive damage.

Brazil waging 'war' on wildfires in crowded Sao Paulo state

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At least 30 killed, dozens missing after dam collapse in eastern Sudan

A dam near Sudan’s Red Sea coast collapsed on Sunday has claimed at least 30 lives, according to the United Nations. The surging waters devastated at...

At least 30 killed, dozens missing after dam collapse in eastern Sudan

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